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host: have you talk to your son in guam? are there any precautions being taken that he has discussed? like i said, he is in the air force. kind of what they do is secret. he is unable to tell us exactly what they are doing. i have not spoken to him personally. i sent him an e-mail for his birthday a couple of weeks ago. i haven't spoke to him except through an e-mail. host: thank you. guest: i appreciate your concerns as a mom. nothe nuclear capability, one believes that north korea currently has a missile that can deliver a nuclear weapon to the continental united states. they have some crew devices -- crude devices, but nothing that could reach the united states today. let's be clear on that. the defensehat department and the president are taking the threat seriously. they have moved additional assets into the region, including to protect guam. if they saw additional mobilization of resources and readiness on the north korean side, i think you might see corresponding actions on the part of the united states. it would most
host: have you talk to your son in guam? are there any precautions being taken that he has discussed? like i said, he is in the air force. kind of what they do is secret. he is unable to tell us exactly what they are doing. i have not spoken to him personally. i sent him an e-mail for his birthday a couple of weeks ago. i haven't spoke to him except through an e-mail. host: thank you. guest: i appreciate your concerns as a mom. nothe nuclear capability, one believes that north korea currently...
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the threats that the north koreans have leveled directly at the united states regarding our base in guam, threatened hawaii, threatened the west coast of the united states. as secretary of defense andening beginning with the president of the united states and all of our leaders, we take those threats seriously. we have to take those threats seriously. i think we have had measured responsible serious responses to those threats. >> michelle. >> i think the secretary was absolutely right. the united states has to take seriously the threats from north korea. i think the president and the secretary have ordered very prudent action to increase our defenses sending additional issile defenses to guam, sending additional ballistic missile defense ships into the region. i think that's only prudent, given that, again, we don't know where exactly this unproven north korean leader is going to go. we don't know if he is going to miscalculate in some way, so better to be safe than sorry. i think, again, very important to reassure our closest alies, south korea and japan, of our commitment to their defe
the threats that the north koreans have leveled directly at the united states regarding our base in guam, threatened hawaii, threatened the west coast of the united states. as secretary of defense andening beginning with the president of the united states and all of our leaders, we take those threats seriously. we have to take those threats seriously. i think we have had measured responsible serious responses to those threats. >> michelle. >> i think the secretary was absolutely...
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hasn't been any -- any discussions as far as unmanned assets, particularly the global hawks based in guam being used over the peninsula. is there a particular reason why those -- those assets haven't been used yet? and if so, why? >> typically, our isr missions around the world are classified. so i wouldn't comment one way the other on whether or not isr assets have been deployed in the asia-pacific. >> on the f-22 deployments, while those raptors were deployed, was the raptor fleet operating under any other flight restrictions that had been in place for months before? >> for the specifics on that, i'll have to come back to you. i'm not aware of any flight restrictions they were flying under, but if that changes, i'll let you know. okay. marcus? >> are they still on display, by the way? >> yes. >> not flying? >> they're not flying. >> can you preview the secretary's speech tomorrow at ndu and talk a little bit -- >> i don't want to preempt the secretary of defense. >> but why did -- why did he decide to hold his first major policy speech there? >> well, this is a very important speech. i
hasn't been any -- any discussions as far as unmanned assets, particularly the global hawks based in guam being used over the peninsula. is there a particular reason why those -- those assets haven't been used yet? and if so, why? >> typically, our isr missions around the world are classified. so i wouldn't comment one way the other on whether or not isr assets have been deployed in the asia-pacific. >> on the f-22 deployments, while those raptors were deployed, was the raptor fleet...
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the threats that the north koreans have leveled directly at the united states regarding our base in guam, threatened hawaii, threatened to the west coast of the united states. as secretary of defense, and beginning with the president of the united states, and all of our leaders, we take those threats seriously. we have to take those threats seriously. i think we have measured, responsible, serious responses to those threats. as you know, we are undergoing joint exercises with the south koreans now. we are doing everything we can working with the chinese and others to defuse that situation on the peninsula. but, as i said in a news conference last week when asked about this, it only takes being wrong once. and i don't want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once. so we will continue to take these threats seriously. i hope the north will ratchet this very dangerous rhetoric down. there is a pathway that is responsible for the north to get on a path to peace, working with their neighbors. there are many benefits to their people that could come. but they have to be a responsible me
the threats that the north koreans have leveled directly at the united states regarding our base in guam, threatened hawaii, threatened to the west coast of the united states. as secretary of defense, and beginning with the president of the united states, and all of our leaders, we take those threats seriously. we have to take those threats seriously. i think we have measured, responsible, serious responses to those threats. as you know, we are undergoing joint exercises with the south koreans...